Uma Bharti backs Advani's prediction on 2014 polls

Advani had said that the Congress would not be able to gain more than 100 seats.

Firebrand BJP leader Uma Bharti has said that the prediction of LK Advani about the BJP and Congress were absolutely correct.

Advani had said that the Congress wouldn't be able to gain more than 100 seats. "This has happened in the past also. But, as the prime ministership of Chaudhry Charan Singh, Chandrashekhar, Deve Gowda and Inder Kumar Gujral, as also of Vishwanath Pratap Singh have shown, such governments have never lasted long," Advani said.

"We know that the Congress would be routed this time. The BJP is an integral part of the NDA and wants to form the government at the Centre after 2014 Parliamentary election. Although I don't want to comment on Advani's views about a non-Congress, non-BJP prime minister but the fact remains that the views presented by him in his blog are absolutely correct," she told newspersons in Agra on Monday.

Her support to the prediction of Advani assumes significance in the backdrop of the statement of former BJP president Rajnath Singh that there must be a Prime Minister of his party after the Lok Sabha election.

"Advani's statement on his blog has been misinterpreted. He never said that the BJP wouldn't be able to form the government at the Centre and give a PM," Singh said.

Bharti was there to attend the concluding day's session of the "chintan baithak" of the party.

On the other hand, BJP's national vice-president Kalraj Mishra warned Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, and a part of the NDA, to refrain from making any comment against Gujarat CM Narendra Modi.

"Modi is a senior BJP leader. The party leadership will decide whether he would be projected as PM candidate or not. But Nitish Kumar must keep silent on the internal matters of the BJP," Mishra said.

A section of the BJP leaders hold in their private talks that Advani's prediction was intended towards frustrating the plan of Modi to mount pressure on the party to project him as PM candidate.

Meanwhile, the BJP has resolved to return to its old plank of "Aggressive Nationalism" for the coming Parliamentary poll.

Laxmi Kant Bajpai, state president of the BJP said, "We have decided to return to vibrant nationalism where there was no room for appeasement policy for any particular community."

We will focus our campaign against Muslim appeasement policy of the United Progressive Alliance government, he said.

Bajpai said that the party's central leadership will appoint six senior leaders to supervise its Lok Sabha election campaign in UP.

"Instead of contesting election, these leaders will concentrate on chalking out our strategies in local situations," he said.